Threats to Sustainability – videos and major reports
General References
World land mass index
DemocracyNOW! News network
Professor Joseph Siry’s Environment Links Page
Climate Change
Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene – National Academy of Science
Breakthrough – PBS NOVA program asserts that most scientists now agree about man-made climate change
Climate-Debate.com
NASA interactive comparison of now vs. before
Recent earth heating is NOT normal variation
Largest Glacier Break off on record – Greenland 2017
Yale 2016 Opinion Maps
Large collection of climate discussion
Watts Up With That – References
Video graphic of global temperature rise
12 yr. old Severn Cullis-Suzuki at Rio Summit 1992
World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity – A Second Notice 2017 – 15,364 signatures
World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity – November 1992 – Union of Concerned Scientist version
World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity – November 1992 – Text
Maps for environmental factors
Green World Rising – 4 videos – Leonardo DiCaprio
Scientific Consensus for Maintaining Humanity’s Life Support Systems in the 21st Century
Major resource about the “Sixth Extinction” – i.e. the human caused one we are in
World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity – November 1992 – David Suzuki Video
Bill McKibben 350 PPM CO2: Earth’s Tipping Point?
Chief Oren Lyons speaks about Climate Change
The National Academies series on America’s Climate Choices – 20 videos
Carl Sagan’s little blue dot story
Climate Change – UN Reports
UN Environmental Program 2016 Regional Updates
UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change Dec. 2015
U.N. Report on Global Sustainability January 30, 2012
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports
Ecological Footprint
Ecological Footprint Standards for 2009
Global Human Footprint Data
Living Planet Report 2012
Economics
Extreme inequality – Oxfam 2016
The Earth Charter
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Economic charts and graphs – Calculated Risk Blog
Inability of the future to match the invention explosion of 1870-1970 – Robert Gordon
Why Degrowth? – William Rees
World Economic Forum Global Risks 2013
The Collapse of America
Robert Kennedy – GOP doesn’t measure what we value
Bill McKibben – Downsides to Economic Growth
CASSE – Ecological Limits to Economic Growth
Who Killed Economic Growth – Post Carbon Institute
What a Way to Go – life at the end of an Empire
The End of Economic Growth – Heinberg – Post Carbon Institute
Russel Ackoff – the need for system thinking in problem solving
Economics – Limits to Growth – Book information and followup
U. Melbourne 2014 update Limits to Growth report
U. Melbourne 2014 update for Limits to Growth – Guardian article
Limits to Growth – online
Limits to Growth – library book
Limits to Growth – overview 7 min.
Too late for sustainable development – Meadows at the Smithsonian
Final Warning – History of the Club of Rome effort – 42 min.
Dennis Meadows Limits to Growth pt. 1
Dennis Meadows Limits to Growth pt. 2
Dennis Meadows Limits to Growth pt. 3
Dr. Nate Hagens – Core principles – 90 min
Limits to Growth predictions borne out, U. Melbourne study
Jorgen Randers Interview for his book ‘2052’ – a sobering view on A2 human psychology
Scientific American article on the concept of Limits To Growth
Exponential Growth
Albert Bartlett The impact of exponential growth pt. 1
Albert Bartlett The impact of exponential growth pt. 2
Albert Bartlett The impact of exponential growth pt. 3
Albert Bartlett The impact of exponential growth pt. 4
Albert Bartlett The impact of exponential growth pt. 5
Albert Bartlett The impact of exponential growth pt. 6
Albert Bartlett The impact of exponential growth pt. 7
Albert Bartlett The impact of exponential growth pt. 8
Geoengineering
Geoengineering, A Clear And Present Danger – Wigington
Geoengineering And The Collapse Of Earth 2014
Oil – Energy
The Energy Bulletin, a collection of information on the peak in global energy supply
Peak Oil – The Post Carbon Institute
Jay Hanson Peak Oil pt. 1
Jay Hanson Peak Oil pt. 2
Jay Hanson Peak Oil pt. 3
Jay Hanson Peak Oil pt. 4
The Days After Peak Oil – Walking the Walk
The role of oil and the U.S. $ in the middle east conflict